Word: otterman
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...placed by "Tours of Enchantment," a travel agency operating out of rented desk space in a Long Beach (Calif.) airline ticket agency. "Tours" was mostly a mail drop and slight, soft-spoken Charlie Otterman, 37. For a mere $385 the tourists would be lapped in luxury aboard a slim, rakish yacht, served the "finest of foods . . . five times daily," and by night would dance beneath the golden Pacific moon...
Last week, the Coast Guard fined Charlie Otterman $1,000 for operating without a certificate of inspection and failing to carry a properly qualified crew. The 18 angry romance-seekers were promised their money back. Mused Passenger Frank C. Crans, 65, a retired Sears, Roebuck executive: "I was told the trip would be unusual...
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